Tea drinkers

You might try wild berry zinger. It has a pretty strong taste, and I really like it although I do tend to drink green tea more lately, which is more of an acquired taste.

There are a lot of different herbal teas out there, some I like are; lemon & ginger, peppermint, green tea with lemon (add honey to make it sweeter), redbush (rooibos) which you can add milk & honey to :-) They all have their own benefits.

English breakfast is my go to - a little maple syrup, a splash of cashew milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon is all I need. Took a bit of time to figure out what preparation method worked best for me.

Otherwise, apple cinnamon tea, mint or honey vanilla tea are my non-caffeinated options, prepared similarly to the above with a touch less maple syrup. Mint I can drink with no milk/syrup when desperate.

My sister loves English Breakfast and Mint as well - she takes both plain or with lemon.

When I first started drinking tea ages ago, I didn't know you could put milk or sugar in them, so I always drank them straight. [in Jenna Marble's voice] "YOU CAN ADD MILK TO YOUR TEA? WHAAAAAATT??"
Now I can't have it any other way. Some teas honestly don't even need milk or sugar- like Red Rose strawberry cheesecake.

I am a total tea addict. I have about 20 different teas at my work desk right now.

Most of mine are from David's Tea. I really like flavoured black teas or unflavoured greens like sencha or genmaicha.

I drink my green teas without any additives, but I do like a splash of almond/cashew milk and a squirt of liquid stevia in my black teas.

If you live somewhere with a David's Tea I'd be happy to give some recommendations. I've tried at least 40 of their teas.

My current favorite is Harney and Sons earl grey supreme. I can easily drink it black. The company makes several teas that I really enjoy, but this one is by far my favorite. I order it on Amazon (that is, I have a monthly subscription to it on Amazon and I get sad if I run out).

No, I do not work for Harney and Sons.

I metabolize caffeine slowly, so I only have caffeine-free teas after noon. I like making iced tea with a blend of Celestial Seasonings wild berry zinger and red zinger (or just wild berry if you can’t find red).

Early Grey. Black.

The best thing to do is to just try them out. Some tea brands have tester sets with different flavors in one package. That way you can test different ones without having to buy a package of each flavor. (I won't bother listing brands since I probably live on another continent than you ). Just browse the shelves of your local grocery store to see what's available and pick something that strikes your fancy.

Try it plain. Try it with some honey. Some lemon. Some milk. Some sugar. Any of the above combined. To see what you would like. As stated above, I'm an Earl Grey, Black kinda girl. My dad will put milk and sugar in green tea (which I find an aberration, but he likes it, so I'll fix it that way for him). Don't bother with what people would consider as 'appropriate' for a given tea. It's your taste buds that have to swallow that stuff, so feel free to experiment. Once you've tried all possible combinations and find that you can't drink it. Try another kind (and see if you know someone who you could foist the tea off on )

If there's a specialty tea shop near you, you can always drop by and smell your way through the selection. They're usually pretty competent at helping you find something appropriate if you give them some idea what you like. They might also be willing to sell you a small sampler (just enough for 2-3 teas) to test a particular one. You just have to ask.

I love tea! Green Tea, Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Peppermint Tea... I drink it hot or cold, always unsweetened and no milk or cream.

Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice is one of my very favorites for the extremely cold weather we've been having lately! It tastes like Atomic Fireballs (without getting yelled at by my dentist)!

SnowOwl26 wrote: »

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

I was a DD fan, now down to two milk.

I find it useful to try a variety of teas, and adagio.com sells samples of most of their flavors. I suggest trying them out to start.

I like strong flavors that aren't compatible with sugar, to keep me from adding sugar to it. The best teas for that for me are Genmaicha (Japanese tea with roasted rice in it, tastes like toast), Gyokuro (expensive shade-grown Japanese green that has extra caffeine and a very strong flavor, sort of like green vegetables, but not bitter), Hojicha (Japanese green tea that's roasted, it tastes smokey), lapsang souchong (Chinese black tea that tastes like a gosh darn campfire, a little overwhelming if it's not blended, but definitely memorable and incompatible with sugar), and Pu-er (Chinese aged black tea that tastes like dirt...but in a good way!).

Adagio is good to try these all out. That's where I found them.
After you try them, Yunnan sourcing has some exciting pu-er's, and O-Cha has a great variety of better-priced Japanese green teas.

SnowOwl26 wrote: »

I'm a big coffee sugar and cream type girl. But I want to give it up and drink teas. How do I make them taste good and which ones are best. How to drink tea Mm

I can't say which ones you will like, but look for sampler boxes. Sampler boxes will let you try lots of different teas. I hate buying a box of tea I can't stand. This can at least steer you in the right direction. Look for Stash, Bigelow, Celestial Seasonings, or Twinings.

I like flavored black tea - not sweetened - hot or cold. I make a big pitcher of iced tea using flavored (Twinings Mixed Berry) and plain black tea bags. The flavored tea bags mellow the tea out. Black iced tea - straight - may be an acquired taste. Chais are yummy spicy black (or green) teas but I tend to add milk & sugar. Bigelow Vanilla Chai is a good "beginner" chai, no black pepper in there. Celestial Seasonings Chai is an acquired taste (IMO).

I like flavored green tea - not sweetened - hot or cold. I make green iced tea using flavored and plain green tea bags. Again, flavored tea bags (I use a store brand) mellows the tea out. Don't use too hot water to steep green tea (not boiling) or your tea will be bitter.

Herbal tea - rooibos (red tea) is very mellow. I like Celestial Seasonings Madagascar Vanilla.

If you're looking for black tea try PG Tips. Brew the tea with boiling water( I brew for the recommended 3 minutes), don't squeeze the bag, add 1/2-1 tsp sugar or none at all, and 3-4 tablespoons of 2% milk.

An herbal tea I've been enjoying lately is Tazo Dessert Delights. I usually don't like lemon teas but their Lemon Loaf is delicious. It's like a lemon vanilla tea. It doesn't need sugar but you could add 1/2-1 tsp for extra delicousness.

Tazo Butterscotch Blondie is another delicious black tea.

I like fruit-flavored green teas. Lipton used to (or maybe still does, but I haven't seen it in months) a mandarin orange one which was my favorite. But all of the lemon (with or without ginseng) ones are good. Aldi has really good pomegranate-blueberry-acai green tea, too.

I don't put anything in them, as I like their tastes as-is.

Good tea needs to 'brew in a pot for 3 or 4 mins, preferably a china pot English Breakfast with a splash of semi skimmed milk for me please